Friday, January 29, 2016

This sweet Peace on Earth Angel painted by Betty Stoumbos of Canada, is the newest addition to my art collection. Such a pretty little painting. I have often been told my home is very much like an Art Gallery. I am beginning to see why.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Constanza !!

On this special day, my sweet friend, I send wishes that the coming year will bring you love, joy, and purpose. You have been through SO much and you've been SO strong. You are an inspiration! Your stitching and paintings always tell a beautiful story. I look forward to your future creations.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Old friend, Todd, arrived at Casey's late Sunday night for a visit. Yesterday, Casey took him on a flight from Charleston to Hilton Head where they enjoyed Snapper and Conch Fritters for lunch! The more photos I see of him flying, the more my fear is beginning to melt away. I'll be proud and happy to sit next to my son in a plane and be whisked off to lunch in some tropical city.

After shoveling the sidewalk AGAIN, I walked around the yard and took these photos. I haven't measured, but I'm guessing we got very close to 1-1/2 to 2 feet of snow. It is a beautiful Winter Wonderland out there.

Friday, January 22, 2016

It has begun! We went from NO snow last night, to this, early this morning.

This little guy has been in one of the trees out front packing in the berries for a good while this morning.

Everything is closed or closing! Looks like we'll be spending a cozy weekend at home. A power outage is my only concern. The birds are concerned as well - looking for a warm safe place to settle in while the snow piles up.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

These are photos of a few of the cardinals that flew into the front yard about an hour ago. There was probably a dozen of them ~ males and females. They played around for a while and then left. It is very COLD with light snow falling. They need food and I must bundle up and go out to fill the feeders.

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"PAINT WHAT YOUR EYE CAN SEE AND GIVE IT A SOUL, YOUR SOUL, AND LET NOT THE ONLOOKERS MAKE JUDGEMENT ..... FILL YOUR MIND WITH THE WIND AND THE AIR AND COLORS OF EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN AND ANIMAL ALIKE."~Fabriozi 1471 - 1502 artist

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

Patrick

The Cancer Candle reminding us to pray for those who need healing.

"THERE IS A CRACK IN EVERYTHING.THAT'S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN."~Leonard Cohen

"Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies."~Gerald Brenan1894-1987author, historian

"TIME IS THE COIN OF YOUR LIFE. IT IS THE ONLY COIN YOU HAVE, AND ONLY YOU CAN DETERMINE HOW IT WILL BE SPENT. BE CAREFUL LEST YOU LET OTHER PEOPLE SPEND IT FOR YOU."~Carl Sandburg 1878 - 1967 writer, poet

Two shall be born a whole wide world apart and one day out of darkness they shall stand and read life's meaning in each other's eyes.

"THE MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION YOU CAN OWN IS AN OPEN HEART. THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON YOU CAN BE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE." ~Carlos Santana

"NO LOVE, NO FRIENDSHIP CAN CROSS THE PATH OF OUR DESTINY WITHOUT LEAVING SOME MARK ON IT FOREVER."~Francois Mauriac

1885 - 1970

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... and he called me "artsy-craftsy"~ how foolish of me to think he understood my passion

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I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.